Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Metacognition: The Kite Runner

My thought process goes something like this....
"Food, food, drink, oh good song,read something...nah it's not due, hungry...wait trying to eat healthy...oh screw it, text text text, stop texting....paper time."
After that my thought process is something like a hum trying to find something that sounds like me. In this paper, I used the angel and demon concept just because it's so relatable and something on the surface just like how I pictured the book. Sure the book had some deep thinking parts, but only because we were looking for them. I wanted to create a surface feel to a surface book. After the surface appeal and something easy to read did I get into the deeper connections, at least that's what I thought I did. This was the first paper of the year, so i'll need just a little slack on my deep connections...I didn't exactly write papers over the summer. In my paper, I would make everything a little more distinct and give more structure to it.
What surprises me about my thinking is that I can't just sit and think about how i'm going to write something; I have to sit there and type a few words, then delete them and type stuff over just so I can't get my juices flowing. Also, because i'm so easily distracted, I find that listening to music actually helps. The words in the music give me something to start on and I end up finding a song/rhythm that I like. But with that, I'd like to make it so I don't have to listen to music to get my academic self to show up. I like to keep it underground a lot because I like just soaking things in and this doesn't help me. Overall, my thinking was a little shallow this time, but I thought it was portrayed in a way that was similar to what the book showed me.

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